Hoodlums destroy Atiku’s billboard in Abakaliki

One of the Atiku Abubakar’s
support groups in Ebonyi state known as Friends of Atiku (FOA) has decried the destruction
of their billboard at Mile 50 Abakaliki.

The group which condemned the act
said the perpetrators have failed as it is never a way of knowing one’s
popularity.

Atiku, the former vice President
of Nigeria is currently the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in
the February 16 presidential elections.

Addressing journalists in the
campaign office in Abakaliki , the Onicha local government coordinator of FOA Comrade Nnamdi Ogbonnaya Onu said they
noticed suspicious movement of some persons around the office in the evening
before the campaign billboard was destroyed.

He however called on the
supporters of the former Vice President of the country to remain calm and law
abiding as the matter has been reported
to security agents. He said :

“This morning as early as 5:30 am,
our phones began to ring getting calls from people living around our campaign office
here at mile 50 Abakaliki that it has been attacked by some hoodlums. We rushed
here and discovered that some of our billboards have been damaged by the
hoodlums.

“We are surprised because we the
Friends of Atiku are law abiding people because we are league of people; men
and women, youths, the old and young in Nigeria who have identified with the
wind of lets get Nigeria working again that started in last couple of months.

“To discover that some faceless
individuals will take it upon themselves to attack us in this manner is
something we are not going to take. In as much as we are not going to accuse
anybody, we believe that for people to attack us, is doing that at his own
risk. Even if you are doing it that
somebody sent you from anywhere or any quarter,we know that Ebonyi as a
PDP state cannot encourage anybody to destroy presidential candidate
billboards.

“Yesterday, we noticed some
unusual movement around here but because of the fact that we opened our gate
wide open for people to come in.

We have made former reports to
security agencies to let everybody know that we are peace and law abiding
people as friends of Atiku.

“What has happened is something
highly despicable for anybody to think
that destroying billboards is a way of enhancing his/her political popularity.
We want to appeal to everybody to be steadfast in their support to our presidential
candidate”, he said.

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